What superpower would you want?

So, my semester ended on Friday, giving me the weekend to do absolutely nothing. So what did I do? I watched 13 episodes of Heroes (thanks Erica). I must say, it's a really good show. I like how everything is connected. Anyhow, after watching 13 hours of the show, I flip to FOX during the halftime show of the Super Bowl and what movie is playing? None other than X2: X-men United. Interesting, my entire weekend was spent watching shows/movies about mutations in human beings.

Now, obviously, this posed a very interesting question. If I had a superpower, what would I want it to be? Of course, I've asked myself this question many times, and I've always come up with the same answer, but after much thought, I realized that all powers have their pros and cons. Here, I'll break down the most "common" superpowers and tell you what I like and dislike about them.

Assumptions: You can only have one super power (with the exception of "stealing" other people's powers...but that will be discussed later). You know how to throw a punch or a kick (basically...you can fight).

Flying: Quite possibly the most common ability among superheroes. Superman has it. Nathan Petrelli has it. Sure, it's pretty cool to fly away with the birds, but doesn't it get kind of boring after a while? If flying is all you can do, you'll get owned in a fight indoors against someone stronger than you. Overall, flying is cool, but kind of boring, in my opinion.

Super Fast Healing: Like Wolverine, Lady Deathstrike, or Claire Bennett. Nothing can hurt you. You never die (unless your body is pumped full of indestructable metal). This would be a cool power too except you'd pretty much live forever. Never in fear, never really watching your back. It's this kind of paranoia (no matter how slight it is) that keeps life interesting, well my life at least. So, just like flying, this ability is not for me.

Reading people's minds: Like Matt Parkman, or Xavier (although Xavier's power is much more powerful as he can actually control people's minds too). Sure it would be nice to know what people are thinking sometimes, but all the time? What if you don't want to know what they are thinking? Wouldn't that suck?

Taking other people's powers: Ok, absolutely the most worthless power ever. Rogue sucks. Peter Petrelli sucks. Sure, you can be any hero you want, but what if you aren't near a hero? You're screwed, son. 'Nuff said.

Time travel: Butterfly effect. Change one thing, screw up something else. Not my idea of fun.

Other powers that are pretty worthless that aren't worth explaining: Invisibility, erasing people's memories, creating different weather phenomenon, shooting lasers out of your eyes (SMH @ cyclops), having an alter-ego, hax0ring machines (though it would come in handy right now with my computer in the shop), walking through walls, remembering everything you come in contact with.

Now that that's is over with, now we can get on to pretty cool powers.

Telekinesis- Something about being able to move objects just by thinking about it is pretty cool. I'd never have trouble opening that pickle jar ever again...

Creating fire: Just because I'm a pyro. FIRE??? FIRE!!!!!!

Creating ice: Just so I can put out all the fires I create.

Persuating people: I can make people do whatever I want? Boy, that would be fun, but isn't that cheating? My morals say I shouldn't take this power, but man would I have fun.

Super speed: My original favorite super power. I could be anywhere on the planet in no time flat. But man, if I ran into something that fast, I'm a dead man. My reaction time would have to be BEAST.

Now, the moment of truth, the superpower of choice for Alan Nguyen is:

Teleportation! It's almost like having super speed, but instead of running everywhere and risk bumping into something and killing myself, I can just bend space and teleport to whereever I need to go. Think of nightstalker in X-men and how cool he is. Hiro in Heroes, he can teleport whereever the hell he wants. Combine the two teleportation variants and that is what I want. Now THAT'S cool.

Anyways, that's the geekiest post I've ever done. I also did the geekiest thing this week. I named my computer Nadia. Poor Nadia is in the shop :( Hopefully Nadia will be back for Valentine's Day or I will cry. I may have to cheat on her at some point too. But shh...she doesn't know that...